Visit of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru to the French Institute of Pondicherry (IFP) on October 4, 1955

Dr. Jean Filiozat, 1st Director of the IFP

Inauguration of NACLIN 2014 in the presence of former President of India, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam

President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee, presenting at the Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi on March 23, 2015, the Presidential Award of Certificate of Honour to Pandit S. Sambandan Sivacharya

A first phase of a project on a numerical Historical Atlas of south India has been launched by the French Institute of Pondicherry and the Tamil University of Tanjavur. This CD-ROM is a prototype. It deals with the region of Pudukkotai (central Tamil Nadu). An extension of this work is currently ongoing for the whole of Tamil Nadu and Kerala, and on pilot zones of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.